Bowdle man leads Coyote golfers

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The University of South Dakota senior led his team in each of its five fall meets. The Coyotes recently finished their fall season at a 54-hole event in Edwardsville, Ill.

Turner fired three straight rounds in the 70s to finish in a tie for 17th with a score of 230. USD freshman Tyler Zahn of Aberdeen Central shot a 259.

Turner finished fourth in the North Dakota State meet to lead the Coyotes to a second-place team finish. USD will resume its spring season in February.

Here are some other things that I know:

NSU basketball: The Northern State men's basketball team will play three exhibition games on the road against highly touted Division I opponents in the next week. The Wolves play at Northern Iowa at 1 p.m. Sunday, at Purdue at 6 p.m. Tuesday and at defending national runner-up Butler at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

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On radio: All three of those NSU basketball games will be on Hub City Radio's 94.1 FM radio station with sports director Vaughn Kary doing the play-by-play.

Roncalli grad in line at Notre Dame: When Notre Dome hosted the University of Southern California in football last Saturday night, it asked former Irish football players to line up before the game to welcome current players running onto the field. Among those in line was former Notre Dame kicker and Aberdeen Roncalli standout Ian DeHueck.

SDSU basketball: The South Dakota State women's basketball team will open its season at 2 p.m. Sunday by hosting Minnesota State, Moorhead in an exhibition at Frost Arena. The SDSU men open with an exhibition against Moorhead at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Brookings.

Banned: The Colman-Egan School Board has banned an unidentified parent of a Deubrook football player for four years, according to KJAM radio of Madison. The board imposed the ban as the result of an Oct. 7 incident that happened after the Colman-Egan vs. Deubrook football game. The incident happened after Colman-Egan school officials tried to break up a crowd that had confronted the officiating crew following the game. The Deubrook School District has since apologized to the Colman-Egan school and fans.

Combined champs: Cross country and track and field state programs in South Dakota also award combined team championships (boys' and girls' teams from the same school that have the best combined score at a state meet). The winners of those titles at the recent state cross country meet were won by Yankton (AA), Madison (A) and Estelline (B).

Proud Pheasant: Many visitors to the our area communities cherish their times in this area. For example, it is not unusual for me to hear from former minor league baseball Aberdeen Pheasants. The most recent is Edward J. Blake Jr., an attorney who runs the Blake Law Group in Belleville, Ill. Blake was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the third round of the 1970 amateur draft as a right-handed pitcher and spent his first summer with the Orioles' farm team in Aberdeen. Blake, who played four seasons of minor league ball, pitched 65 innings for the Pheasants and struck out 65 batters.

Game of Week: Our football game of the week will be Miller (7-2) vs. Leola-Frederick (8-1) at Leola at 7 p.m. Monday. Watch the game at http://www.605sports.com with Will Elkins of the American News providing commentary beginning at 6:45 p.m.

Also Monday: Watch the McCook Central-Montrose (8-1) at Groton (9-0) football game at 7 p.m. Monday at http://www.605sports.com.

Volleyball too: Elkins and the American News also will provide coverage of the District 2B championship volleyball match at http://www.605sports.com Nov. 4 from the Strode Center in Aberdeen.

Retiring: South Dakota School of Mines head football coach Dan Kratzer will retire after this season. In his seven seasons, the Hardrockers are 22-48 (0-8 this season).

John Papendick is the managing news-sports editor for the American News. Readers tell and email him with stuff plus he reads all the daily newspapers in South Dakota on a daily basis. Reach him at jpapendick@aberdeennews.com. Blog: aberdeensports.net/inthehuddle.